A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States. With a median construction year of 1996, Colonial homes have also proven to be a solid ...

Trends always start somewhere, and in the mid 19th century, the best way to start a trend that would encompass the entire country, was to introduce it at a huge celebration or fair. Before the 1893 ...

Exterior of a row of colorful Victorian homes with intricate wood trim. The story of American architecture has followed much of the same path as art has over the past 400 years. Art, as a whole, tends ...

Despite its relatively small size -- at only 8.15 acres and just short of 20,000 residents -- Colonial Heights is a wonderful city at the intersection of the Piedmont plateau and Tidewater plain in ...

Every state and region in the United States has a range of popular residential architecture styles. These styles evolved over years of migration patterns, international settlements, and building to ...

Introduction / Cary Carson -- Architecture as Social History / Cary Carson -- Fieldwork / Edward A. Chappell -- Migration, Society, Economy, & Settlement: 1607-1830 / Lorena S. Walsh -- The Design ...

American history is incarnate in the streets of Washington D.C. Take a 20-minute walk almost anywhere in the capital and you’ll pass a handful of historically significant homes. Indeed, whether built ...

Dancers Alma Real and Filipe del Hoyo at Old Spanish Days Fiesta, circa 1935. Credit: Santa Barbara Historical Museum Collection photo [Noozhawk’s note: One in a daily series leading up to Old Spanish ...

Modern architecture spent decades chasing minimalism, with its flat roofs, stark lines, and deliberate absence of ornamentation. The aesthetic worked beautifully in theory, and looked stunning in ...